The Opelousas courier., 1887-12-17
oPEIOUsAs PARISH OF ST. LANDRY DECEMBER IT, 1887
HteIlls OF Interest.

Lynchburg, Va, is to have 5000, 900 cotton
mill in operation during the coming year.
This is an advert Using and an adyertis-
ed age. IL yon do not keep your business
constantly before the public, some one more
enterprising will step in front of You and
crowd yon back into obscurity.
The Boston women appear to be losing in
terest in their elective franchise. The num-
ber registered to vote at the school elections
this year is only S37, as against 1888 iast year
and 2239 in 1885.
Chief Justice Waite was s-seventy-o years
of5sre on Nov. 49, He could have retired un-
der the law with $4,000 year, but prefers to
work right on. He has no thought of resign
ing. His health is perfect, he likes work and
work likes him.
Terrebonne Advocate: We do not know
whether Mr.. Ben Bolt remembers Sweet Alice
or not, but we snrmise that Sweet Alice
and every other good Democrat remembers
tho Hunt Bolt, the distinguished progenitoro of
of all The puny young bolts that are making
their feeble appearance in the Reform family
just now.
The Catholics of the Archdiocese of New
York City gave at the recent collection of Pc
as jubilee offering to Pope Leo XIII, the
handsome sum OF $37, ,:,37 so. TIE congrega-
tion Of st. Patrick's Cathedral alone gave
$780,
Women are steadily forcing their way in the
industrial world The South Brooklyn Ferry
Company have substituted women for men as
collectors on both sides of the river. They
work ten hours day an6sreceiye a salary of
$50 per month. They have not only prog6a
themselves as efficient as men, but more
honest.
Farmeryille Gazette: Experiments have
proved that, with cotton seed meal mixed
with some mineral mannres containing phos-
phoric acid, the yield OF corn in North Lou
isiana can be run to SO or even 100 bushels
per acre. Now, as a practical farmer, is 1T
not better to cultivate 10 acres highly mannr
ed and raise 500 to 1000 bushels of corn than
to till so or 100 acres for the same yield?
Terrebonne Advocate: Entirely disregard
ing all previously advertised bafbecues and
meetings Gen Nichols and his trusty Leute-
nant Gen. Gibson are HOW skurrylng excited.
ly about, from one danger point to another all
over the State, in answer to urgent calls from
his alarmed followers to come and save us
ere we sink The general comes" but the
sinking business goes right along just the
i same.
The sudden appearance of water in many
wells IN Southern Wisconsin that have been
perfectly dry since the drouth of last summer
s has caused no little wonder among the people
i Wells are filled almost to the top. Streams
& run in abundance from the side hills and from
springs that have long been dry, and the
creeks and small rivers, whose beds have beer
dry for months, are gradually rising and bid
i fair i, becoSe formidable streams The phe
noinsfssn occurred during night.
M a FINES Democrat, Dec. s.: The United
States Supeme Court yesterday delivered 9
+ very important decision 1t decided that {
State has ullcyptrol of the liquor traffic with
in lis Garderschd can permit or prohibit it a
will Tnss explodes the idea that obtained il
some quapers that license issued by thu
United States carried with it a right to carry
on the traffic without regard to the laws Q
the State The case at Issue was the well
known Kansas Brewery case.
Ponte Coapee Banner The; primary eiec
tion held in Acadia parish on last Saturday
has about knocked The bottom out Of the Re
form tub Sorrel top Zaeharie, Of New Or
leans, helped TO do the business; his presenc
in Acadia in the interest of the Reformers re
suited as usual with him, disad vantageousi,
for his side of the house. The most candid 0
the Reforrners now admit that the jig is ul
throughout the State. Only few recalcitrant
S like the Pieaynne whistle IN a vain endeav0
/ TO keep up the courage OF the Retormers,